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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2009

Validation of continuous cardiac output technologies: consensus still awaited.

Maurizio Cecconi, Andrew Rhodes

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Methods in pharmacology: measurement of cardiac output.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maurizio CecconiDepartment of General Intensive Care, St George's Hospital, Tooting, London SW17 0QT, UK. mauriziocecconi@hotmail.com
Andrew Rhodes

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An ability to measure cardiac output in a continuous and non-invasive fashion is eagerly awaited in the field of intensive care practice. Modern technologies purport to be able to do this, but the design of studies that validate the manufacturers' claims is by no means straightforward. It is imperative that the scientific community describes and agrees on a set of principles that will enable us to design and then review and assess future validation studies, so that new technologies can be fairly assessed and compared with their competitors.

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Cardiac OutputHeart Function TestsHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicReproducibility of Results

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PMID19591658
PMCPMC2717455

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